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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Corn With Pork Ribs Soup


After a day of activities especially outside the home, dinner with a bowl of home cooked soup should be satisfying for the tired body. Can prepare the ingredients in the morning and cooking in the slow cooker should not be too difficult.
Ingredients
[serves 3-4]
1 corn - cut into small pieces
300 gm meat pork ribs - wash, blanch in boiling water to remove scum and rinse
6-8 red dates - wash
1 small red carrot - cut wedges [optional]
3 cloves garlic with skin
1/2 tsp peppercorn - lightly smashed
800 ml hot water
salt to taste
  1. Prepare ingredients - meat, corn, carrot and red dates as stated above.
  2. Put all ingredients in a sauce pot or slow cooker. Add water and bring it to a boil for 15 minutes. Then low heat to simmer for an hour half covered until meat is tender if using sauce pot. If cooking with slow cooker, bring to a boil then slow cook on low heat till dinner time or on high heat till meat is tender. Add salt to taste.
  3. Serve hot.
Note: Can double boiled soup for 1 - 1 1/2 hours.

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